Logging Long Tail Information

Aloha,

Does anybody know of a good program for logging long tail information?

I have tried statcounter and hittail, but both of them lack some of the functionality I need.

Statcounter only logs information about the last 100 pageviews, so it's a bit difficult to see any tendencies, etc. in my long tail information.

Hittail seems to require a seperate account for each site which is a bit annoying when you have 20+ sites.

 

Allow me to suggest opentracker.net - we're using this service for several sites - very easy to implement too. It may be what you're looking for. They also offer a 30 day free trial.

 

Nice, but expensive if you have a lot of pageviews every month

Doesn't there exist something that I can put own my own server for free?

 

If pageviews are that significant, I don't think 20 bucks a month is too much to pay. What depth of statistics, or stat archives do you need?

 

I just need the search queries that people used to end up on our site.

 

try Extremetracking.com it deletes vital infos but goves you a detailed long term info through graphs...

 

Paid Statcounter keeps a lot more pageviews. I really like real-time visitor stats on Statcounter.

 

AWSTATS

Thats all you need to keep track of the search queries used to get to your site. It's free and gives you a lot of great site statistics.

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Try Google Analytics in combination with AWSTATS. They're both free and combined can give you a LOT of information. Google analytics is free but requires you to put a bit of JS code onto your pages... but it's free so if you don't want to go for a paid solution, this is a good option.

 

I like Google Analytics, but it's awfully slow

 

http://extremetracking.com is also nice, but it only logs keywords and not long tail information. Very sad.

 

Analyzing the log file is not that hard really...

Just filter things that come from google.com
and then grab the stuff after q=keyword1+keyword2...&othercrap...
increase the value of an associative array and there you go...

Also if you have adsense on your pages you could use www.asrep.com (I love that thing) I'm getting the pro version it's only $50, but it does way beyond AdSense analysis... try the free version. (Makes me wonder if I don't have adsense whether it would still track my search phrases... heh)

 

I use urchin statistics, I love it. It doesn't list all the key words, just the first 80,000. If that isn't enough to make
your work day longer, there are easy ways to extract more.
(Looking through logs to get the other 551,000 that they
ignore is going to be a lot of work)

Of this 80,000 only 14000 have two or more hits. So the
551,000 that I can't access are all one hit phrases.


But if filter by specifying a word that must be contained
in the phrase I can get 100% because these are always less than 80,000.

 

My favorite long tail tool is http://hittail.com

 

HitTail's multiple accounts automatically get unified under a common email address. Just log in with your email address, and you can switch quickly between each site.

 

Awstats sounds like it would do the job for you.

 

Isn't Urchin statistics more or less the same as Google Analytics?

 

I believe so. Didn't Google buyout the Urchin analytics firm? I'm pretty sure they did.

 

Google did buy Urchin to incorporate their technology on Analytics
but I use both and Urchin is worth paying for.

 

Does Urchin review log data too or is it Javascript-based? Is Urchin better than Awstats?

 

Urchin works off the log, so you don't have to put all
the javascript in.

Don't you feel nervous about having google know every time
every one
of your web pages is accessed?

Big brother alert!